Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunt flushed many another protege of Mrs. Roosevelt's from the thickets of OCD. One was Betty Lindley, wife of New Dealing Newshawk Ernest K. Lindley, who used to handle Mrs. Roosevelt's radio programs. Mrs. Lindley was "principal civilian participation adviser," at $5,600 a year. Another was Jonathan W. Daniels, novelist and editor-son of an editor-father. This man of letters was "director of program planning." For "operations director" the OCD named a New York social worker named Hugh Jackson, and as survey director, Mary Dublin, formerly with the Tolan Committee...
...doubted Eleanor Roosevelt's good intentions. And many a citizen thought it likely that James McCauley Landis, OCD's executive director, might be able to straighten out OCD's compound confusion if he were given a free hand-which meant, if Mrs. Roosevelt would step out. All over the U.S. everyone prayed that Mrs. Roosevelt's admirable energy would find some less dangerous plaything...
...Miss Chaney protested last week that, although she had been working for OCD for two months, she had not yet had any pay, would stand by OCD, regardless. "They can't dig any skeletons out of my closet," said she. One thing dug out of Mayris' closet was a scheme for setting up a physical-fitness assembly line: children were to move down the line under their own power, to be serviced every twelve feet by an instructor in "breathing, marching and relaxing...
...famed Tarheel Editor Josephus Daniels last week staged a spry comeback on his lively, incomplete, partisan, aggressive, successful Raleigh News & Observer. After a nine-year absence (as Ambassador to Mexico) shrewd old "Uncle Joe" Daniels had "enlisted for the war" to replace his son Jonathan, who went to OCD in Washington...
Jesse Owens, 28, brown-skinned track sensation of the 1936 Olympics, went to work for OCD as head of the national body-building program among Negroes...